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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★ 32

  [drew goddard watching The Hateful Eight] hahahaha what? no. noooo. no no no no, this is all wrong. it’s fine, i’ll do it myself

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  Review by issy 🥝 ★★½ 31

  so you’re telling me that wasn’t tom holland

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  Review by Sean Baker 10

  Thoroughly entertained for most of the film. Solid performances and cool set pieces. But the big takeaway for me is Seamus McGarvey's amazing cinematography. This is what 35mm and Panavision lenses give you.

  See it on the big screen.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★ 6

  Alternate title: "Pretty Okay Times at the El Royale That Could Be Great With Some Tighter Pacing and One More Draft of the Script to Flesh Out the Characters A Bit More"

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  Review by iana ★★★½ 3

  i want dakota johnson to shoot me

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  Review by Karst ★★★★ 12

  Omg what a load of fun this was. It’s a miracle this wasn’t a mess. 

  I think what I loved and appreciated more than anything was how Hollywood this felt. Everything from the cinematography to the writing felt so classic, if that makes sense. This thing is also long and that scared me at first but I didn’t feel the runtime at all. Before I knew it the credits started rolling.  

  A few points dragged pretty hard and it was incredibly well casted but the peformances could’ve given me more. 

  Also I’m such a dumbass for thinking that Miles was Tom Holland the entire film only to realize it totally wasn’t.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 8

  Drew Goddard likes to watch. As he made clear in his sly and self-reflexive 2012 debut “The Cabin in the Woods,” he likes to place his characters in a hall of mirrors that only he can see clearly, and he likes to make his audiences to shudder at their own reflections in the glass.

  Of the many things his rollicking second feature has in common with his previous one, the most fundamental is that both films take a genre that’s grown painfully stale, step back until we’re looking at it from a god’s-eye view, and then — however damning it might be — force us reckon with what we love about them. With “The Cabin in the Woods,” Goddard deconstructed…

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  Review by cinephile... 🕯️ ★★★½ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  STORYTIME: i got stuck at a shitty motel with an fbi agent, a fake priest, a military trained killing machine, a murderess with a heart of gold and a whole cult?!? ***NOT CLICKBAIT***

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 6

  drew goddard: 3 tablespoons of non-linear story telling

  a splash of one way mirrors

  and just a dash of chris hemsworth shirtless [proceeds to pour the entire glass in on purpose, overpowering the rest of the ingredients] nice

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  Review by Cameron Kanachki ★★★½ 38

  2 old women sat in front of me & would not shut up throughout the whole film. After the show, I asked them what they thought, & of course, they hated it. I then told them, “Well if you wouldn’t talk so damn loud during the film, maybe you would’ve liked it!” I now feel God in this Chili’s tonight because of that.

  The film was solid, by the way. Could’ve used more humor & more characterization, but it’s a solid thriller.

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  Review by karen h. ★★★★ 1

  more like GREAT TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 2

  “which side are you on?”

  lots of people have already compared the style of this to tarantino, so i won’t, but this is my subtle way of doing it anyway. this was way too enjoyable, but mostly because of how slick it’s pieced together. extremely well crafted, especially for how it comes off when you catch the trailer before another movie or just a promotional image of shirtless chris hemsworth. someone remind me later to rewatch the cabin in the woods before october is over